Significance Of Michael Sam Coming Out As A Gay Football Player

Recently, Missouri football player and NFL prospect Michael Sam publicly came out as gay. If he gets drafted to an NFL team, he will be the first openly gay athlete in the League.

Maryland's News Now interviewed Jim Buzinski of Outsports.com about the topic.

"I think if he plays in a NFL game, it'll be the biggest gay sports story in American history, for it's significance," Buzinski confesses.

Lately, there's been reports, documentaries and articles written about discrimination of sexual orientation in the NFL. Buzinski admits this is a key moment not just for the NFL and football, but for gay athletes and sports in general. "I mean the NFL is obviously the most popular sport in the country, it's the most followed and we've had gay people play in the NFL before, they'll all come out after they retired, so they have someone actively do it," he says. "But we've also never had an active NHL or Major League Baseball player either and in Jason Collins case he never has played since he's announced that hes gay. So this will kind of be the first of the big four and by far the biggest sport."